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Roll with the punches. You'd probably think Lavia will be gone in the next 3 weeks but we already have Charles in place to step in. As long as we don't have to wait for players to leave before bringing in players we should be ok. Charles and Manning are already in ready for Lavia and Perraud leaving. In a summer where we could see a ton of players leave, it makes sense to be proactive and sign their replacements in advance if it is the player we want. The issue would be signing a player to replace, say, JWP then finding nobody comes in for him and we suddenly end up with a bloated squad. Or not signing a replacement for, say, Charley, then finding someone comes in for him late in the window. It's hard to predict. I think the fact we've seen a lot of Amo-Ameyaw in pre-season as well as the likes of Dibling, Doyle and Meghoma and of course we have Ballard shows that playing youth is in the forefront of the manager's thinking so even if we sell players without replacements we have the youth that can, hopefully, step up.

KWP is a strange situation really. He's a player I'd love us to keep and yet we don't really have space in the squad for him as we have Tino and Bree at RB. At LB we now have Manning and we still have Larios and now Meghoma is in the reckoning (assuming Perraud leaves). Meanwhile he's one of our saleable assets that we could get decent money for and yet despite a bit of early interest from Newcastle there hasn't been much word of anything. I do think someone will eventually come in for him but I'd be quite happy if he stayed, it's just that at FB on both sides we are well stocked! Manning being versatile is interesting though. I know Martin said he's here as a LB but with Diallo, JWP and Lavia all likely to leave, it's comforting to know we have another option at CM if we need it.

50% for them all, they do leave or they don't leave. 🙂 (Yes there's always that one twat that says this...)

I just noticed Moussa Dembele is out of contract. We've been linked with him before. I'd like to think we're still interested but our relegation has probably closed that door.

A signing a day and today it is Shea. That rhymes and you know it.

I know he's only got one year left on his contract but 6.5 million they're having a laugh. I wouldn't thought we'd be looking north of at least 12 Mill. These clubs see our relegation and think they can get our players for peanuts.

Bloody hell. I know he was on a free but that was fast work Saints! I read on here literally an hour ago that he was at Staplewood today and... bang. He signs. Wanted by Prem clubs, one of the best LBs in the League last season, good signing. Must mean Perraud is a goner which is a mild shame as I think he might have been decent this season. Anyway welcome Ryan. Get Charles over the line and the rebuild is well under way. I wanted to get some players in before we lose players and that would be a decent start.

As a coach/4th choice perhaps but not a starter. Dani Osvaldo isn't contracted to a football team either... oh wait...

While I'd rather have the money now than lose him on a free next summer, keeping him for a season wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I suspect though that he'll be gone by September.

I've spent a nice evening with Dick Slicker.

£40 million sounds about right to me, probably could have got closer to £50-60 million last summer. He's a player in his prime that never misses a game, has a good engine, is a good passer of the ball and in the right team will get assists and goals. If other clubs think they can get him for £20-£25 million then they're dreaming - clearly they think relegation means we have to sell our players on the cheap when we actually have a good pot of money and can play hardball, as we are doing with Tino and Lavia. I can see JWP going for £35million, possibly even as low as £30 million with add ons but not £20-25 million.

I noticed how porous he was last season! Honestly though I was a big knocker of his last season and I do think a better keeper would have saved us some points, but had we stayed up I would have said we should loan him to the Championship for experience. Well now we're in the Championship so... sod it, he should play. At least until such time as he starts costing us points again.

IMO his long term injury will put clubs off looking at him as a first choice RB - most will want him as a squad option/future prospect. I look at the Premier League table and struggle to see a club where he will be first choice - Chelsea have James, Newcastle have Tripper - he's either going to have to be content sitting on the bench and playing cup games and the odd league game or staying with us, the team that nurtured him through his injury, and being outright first choice. The fact that we are financially better off following this relegation than the last does make me think we can hold on to some of our better players, as long as, like Carlos, they are happy to stay.

Edwards being linked with the Prem, would be decent if we got him though. Links to all the Swansea players concern me slightly, not least because they were only mid-table last season (I believe their squad was thin though) but also because, having pinched their manager in iffy circumstances, they may be unwilling to do business with us. Latibeudiere and Manning are out of contract so they will be getable though.

Think we'll need more than one CB but it depends who stays. Very likely Salisu, ABK, Lyanco and DCC could all be off leaving us with Bednarek, Stephens and Simeu. Personally I would like one starter and one decent younger CB at the very least. I hope Tino stays though. Newcastle pulling a fast one there.

More importantly it would leave us with Armstrong, Mara and young Ballard as recognised strikers (if Onuachu also goes) so that's one non-prolific striker, one underwhelming striker thus far and one untested youth striker. Definitely would need a signing there, if not 2 (although I wouldn't want to block Ballard's pathway).

Badly injured isn't he? I'd be surprised if he went anywhere this summer. But even if he does it leaves us very light at CB. Salisu most likely will go, DCC and Lyanco are moving, really only Bednarek and Stephens will probably remain and we sent both out on loan last season and even Stephens may yet go back to Bournemouth. I guess we will still have Simeu but really it's a position we will be desperate to strengthen as well as CM.

Goldie did a good job following Shep on Blue Peter so hopefully the same applies here.

Early next week, I hope we’ve been eyeing up a decent Bosman or two. Heck I’d take Redmond back for a Championship season.

August and January but my otherwise my thoughts exactly. We are going to have to completely rebuild our squad and we have 5 weeks until our first fixture. I think we start slow but will pick up results later on and squeeze into the play offs. Championship is a tough league.

Cracking news. The younger players will see game time this season and I hope they take their chance. Ballard in particular has a great goalscoring record in the youth teams, why not give him a chance. I also hope Diamond Edwards comes back from his injury as good as he was before. I've seen clips of him play and he's electric.

I said "hope". That's all us fans have to go on this summer.

I know we were expecting players to leave this summer but with the Tino rumours that would leave RBs as Bree and Payne (assuming KWP also goes which we expect). With Lyanco, DCC, Stephens and Salisu most likely leaving we will only have Bednarek and ABK still here and the latter only because he's injured. JWP and Lavia will be gone too... we only have 5 weeks and 4 days until our first fixture. I hope Sports Republic are really on it this summer or we are going to be starting the season slowly which will not be good for promotional aspirations.

Abu like Aladdin's buddy... I wonder if he still has that magic lamp. Could do with a genie.

Welcome Russell. It's not the unifying name I was hoping for but I said I would get behind him and I stand by it. The issue he is going to have is that I can envisage an awful lot of players leaving meaning a complete rebuild which is dodgy the season after relegation and if it doesn't go right, he'll be the one to bite the bullet. Still let's see.